Miss. economic outlook modest, experts say

7:28 PM,
Jan. 4, 2014

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Think it's tough sticking to a New Year's resolution? Try predicting how the economy will do over the course of a year at the start of that year.

In Mississippi, and anywhere else, it takes just one bad day or week for the stock market, one underperforming jobs sector, one major employer closing or even political tension in Washington, D.C. or abroad - to say nothing of a combination of any of those factors - to at least inject more uncertainty into the economic picture, if not send the state's or country's economic health into a tailspin.